| ??? 10/16/07 15:09 Modified: 10/16/07 15:10 Read: times |
#145809 - about that -48 volts ... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
There's a much higher, albeit AC, voltage, about which you must concern yourself. The ring voltage, at least here in the U.S. is AC signal centered about that -48 volt "battery" such that you get a nominally positive >80 volt peak on the ring signal, and a correspondingly low swing on the negative side, that makes it about 260 volts AC at 20 Hz. It's hefty enough to drive ringer solenoids such as the ones in an old electro-mechanical telephone, so I wouldn't want to have my finger on the line when this happened.
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| Topic | Author | Date |
| Telephone line voltages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Beware! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| about that -48 volts ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| i did, OUCH | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the key is to remember it\'s a current-loop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The old stuff | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OK... YOUR grandparents ... MY parents ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Great Stuff ! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pulse dialing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not really surprising. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not necessarily | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Here, it detects both | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pulse Dialling | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Current Loop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why is that the key?? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's the key to understanding it | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sorry, but I cannot see the evidence | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Your circuit diagram shows it adequately | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What do you intend to build? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
What I want to build | 01/01/70 00:00 |